Scroll down for this week's storiespublished at 17:57 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2019
We'll be back on Monday
That's all from BBC Africa Live this week. Keep up-to-date with what's happening across the continent by listening to the Africa Today podcast or check the BBC News website.
A reminder of Friday's wise words:
Quote MessageEvery sheep is slaughtered in the way it lies down."
A Somali proverb sent by Badar in Perth, Australia
Click here and scroll to the bottom to send us your African proverbs.
We leave you with this photo of a street vendor in the South African city of Durban. It's one of our favourite photos taken this week: